What 40 Years of Nutritional Research Taught Me
Sometimes a career takes you somewhere you never expected.
When I became involved with aloe vera research decades ago, I approached work as a physician. The objective was scientific: understand what was occurring in aloe leaf gel, identify its biologically interesting components, and determine what the research might teach us. I was negative and thoroughly prescription drug and Conventional Medicine oriented.
I did not expect that journey to change how I thought about nutrition. The first two years, I could not believe what I was seeing and hearing. Evidence accumulated until I could no longer discount patients’ responses to more comprehensive nutrition.
I did not expect that journey to change how I thought about nutrition.
From Aloe Research to a Much Bigger Question
The research introduced me to Acemannan, a complex carbohydrate associated with aloe vera, and to a much broader world of plant-derived compounds.
But over time, the most important question became less about one plant or one ingredient. It became:
What does the human body require nutritionally to do the remarkable work it performs every day?
The deeper I looked, the more impressive the relationship between food, nutrients, and human biology became.
Our bodies continually use materials from our diets – amino acids, fatty acids, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals, and countless plant compounds – in the normal processes that sustain life.
Nutrition wasn’t simply something we did because we were hungry. It was part of the body’s everyday operating system.
A Change in Perspective IS NEEDED
Medicine is focused on what to do when something is wrong. CPT codes only pay a doctor or hospital if illness is present. That is why we have a sickness industry, not a health system. The system pays nothing to prevent illness.
My research led me to become equally interested in another question:
What are we doing to support things that are going right? Being healthy?
A Change in Perspective
Medicine is understandably focused on what to do when something goes wrong.
My research led me to become equally interested in another question:
What are we doing while things are going right?
- What are we giving the body each day to support normal function?
- Are we eating a sufficiently varied diet?
- Do I need raw food, whole food?
- Are we staying active?
- Are we getting enough sleep?
- And are there nutritional gaps that deserve our attention?
Those questions gradually became central to my personal philosophy about health.
Why NEW EDEN Eventually Followed
NEW EDEN grew out of that journey.
The objective wasn’t to create something that would replace good food, medical care, or a healthy lifestyle.
It was to create a broad nutritional supplement that could complement them.
Over the years, the formulation has evolved as we have learned more about nutrition and identified additional plant-derived ingredients we believed belonged in a comprehensive nutritional formula.
But the philosophy behind it has remained remarkably consistent:
We should think about nutrition before we lose our health and have a reason to think about it. Optimal nutrition leads to healthy longevity.
The Lesson I Would Share Today
After decades spent reading research, observing advances in science and thinking about the extraordinary complexity of the human body, my message today is simpler than it was when I began:
Act and care for the body you have while it cares for you.
Eat a varied and nutritious diet. Eat some raw food as it is found in nature. Move your body. Rest. Maintain appropriate medical care and screenings. Pay attention to what you’re putting into your body.
Remember, good nutrition isn’t about chasing a miracle ingredient. NEW EDEN dietary supplement is Aloe Acemannan with nutrients low, missing, or avoided by choice in the modern diet.
It’s about providing a strong nutritional foundation—consistently, over a lifetime.
That idea ultimately became part of Wellness Quest’s mission, and it continues to guide what we do today and should be every day.
— H. Reg McDaniel, M.D.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Dietary supplements are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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